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BOM 2 Nephi 2

    In 2 Nephi 2, the exceptionally rich chapter that is today’s reading, many passages deserve attention.  But the day has been long — beginning with an early morning return visit, this time with a group of friends, to the Provo City Center Temple open house, followed by an excellent breakfast at a nearby cafe, [Read More...]

Three Quotations from Booker T. Washington

    Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.   If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.   Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than [Read More...]

“Scholastic Pulls Children’s Book About George Washington And His Slaves After Outcry”

    A nice little controversy for Martin Luther King Day:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/g...   http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-wa...   What do you think?   (Thanks to Eric Lopez for bringing this story to my notice.)    

Three quotations attributed to the Prophet Muhammad

    To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.   The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.   Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.  

God Spell

    “We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent.  How much more likely, then, is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion [Read More...]

Three quotations from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.   If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven [Read More...]

You’ll probably want to avoid West Jordan, Utah, on these two dates.

    I’ll be delivering two lectures up there, at Cruise Lady headquarters, 9118 South Redwood Road:   Wednesday, 3 February 2016   “Who’s Who and What’s What in the Middle East”   Are you confused by all the players and factions in today’s Islamic world? (You won’t be alone, if you are.) This lecture [Read More...]

“I Know in Whom I Have Trusted”

    In this, the 151st scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation, Kris Frederickson, Jeff Bradshaw, Craig Foster, and Ben McGuire join in a discussion of 2016 Gospel Doctrine lesson 7, which covers 2 Nephi 3-5:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...    

“‘Thou Knowest that I Believe’: Invoking the Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11″

    I’m afraid that I’m a bit late in calling renewed attention to this, the first article ever published in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/thou...   In my ward, anyway, the Gospel Doctrine lesson for today covered (among other things) 1 Nephi 11.  And I can’t imagine, this early in the [Read More...]

BOM 2 Nephi 1

    With today’s reading, 2 Nephi 1, we enter into an entirely different book within the Book of Mormon — its second.   That fact in itself is interesting.   No great lapse of time separates the end of 1 Nephi from the beginning of 2 Nephi.  No significant event marks the division.  Indeed, the [Read More...]